A head coach’s better half is usually the half we don’t hear from, at least about the game.

Imagine how Dave Ritchie would have reacted? He’d have grabbed his wife’s BlackBerry and eaten it.

Jim Daley? You never even saw his significant other around.

Mike Kelly? Never mind.

Someone like former Moose boss Randy Carlyle would have popped a blood vessel.

But Mrs. LaPo is obviously no shrinking violet. On her Twitter profile: “Opinions are my own, not that of my husband! It’s not the 50’s ... I say what I want!”

You go, girl.

“That’s why they’re such a perfect match,” Brown said. “They balance each other out. She’s the firepit, and he’s the calm, cool and collected.”

That’s what makes this so interesting.

Coach LaPo likes to measure and remeasure every word he says, going out of his way not to insult an opponent. If a player talks trash during the week, he’s fined.

“We told him in the meeting when he told us about it that we should fine her,” a grinning Jovon Johnson said. “They started it. They’ve been trash talking all week... We don’t get involved in that. It’s all in fun. If they get amped up from coach’s wife saying anything, then so be it.”

The players seem to be having a blast with the whole thing.

“It’d be interesting around the dinner table,” cracked Obby Khan, suggesting any fine money collected from Mrs. LaPo go to what Ritchie used to call his chicken fund. “Hopefully we get some free food out of it.”